Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1911 — Forest Ranger's Novelist. [ARTICLE]

Forest Ranger's Novelist.

One man to whom Arbot day appeals strongly is Hamlin Garland, the noted novelist. Mr. Garland knows something about trees and forestry, as his recent novel. “Cavanagh. Forest Ranger,” proves. In this story he upholds the Plnchot views of conservation. Mr. Pinchot. in fact, wrote an introduction to the book, warmly commending the author’s fictional defense of forest conservation. The hero is a forest ranger, one of those virile fellows who do lc thingSein a quiet way and bold dowa tbeir jobs with dignity and decorum Mr. Garland has been acquainted with trees in their natural habitat, the open coodi ry. since his birth. As a boy on a Wisconsin farm he used to “shin up" the walnut and mulberry trees to help himself to their products, and the tallest hickory in the woods jnst for fnn. -- -